Top 50 Songs of 2011

2011 saw the release of two incredible albums by two of my favorite artists, Adele’s epic masterpiece “21” and Foster the People’s debut album “Torches.” The best song of the year is without doubt “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele’s triumphant song of betrayal, heartbreak and ultimate survival. Foster the People have three songs in my top 10, beginning with “Pumped Up Kicks,” with it’s dark message sharply contrasting with a peppy upbeat melody.

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chuck jung

Great list and love ” Rolling in the Deep”! Although I found the video to be a little weird in terms of the setting and the water glasses (?) Also loved to see both Pink and Lady Gaga had numerous hits on your list. A lot of people write Lady Gaga off because of her crazy outfits but glad you recognize her talent. Pink could sing a phone book and I would love it!

A question though for you Jeff. If you take the 3 main sources of top music hits for the year of 2011, what do you think would be the average of number of different songs that make their top 50 for one year? Just seems to me that it would be not a lot of different songs. Not sure if my questions makes sense.now that I read it. I guess the question really is, how many different songs make a top 50 list in the period of one year.

Are you asking how many different songs are there to make the various lists? There are always several “crossover” hits that make all the major charts, though a rap or R&B song won’t appear on the County chart, for example.

Yes, in the period of one year how many different songs actually make a top 50 list. Just seems to me that in one year it would be difficult to have a lot of different songs that would make the top 50 in any category.

Each year there are literally thousands of songs released, but only a few hundred ever get much radio or TV play. Many of the songs that make the year-end Alternative Rock top 50 never make it to the year-end Hot 100 chart, and certainly don’t appear on the Country, R&B or Rap charts. However, hundreds of Country and Rap songs appear on the year-end Hot 100 chart, meaning those genres (which don’t much appeal to me) are much more popular than Alternative Rock.